title: Patient compensation funds: success and failure.
abstract: During the insurance crisis of the 1970s, a handful of states established patient compensation funds to ensure providers access to insurance. Well, the funds are mature now. And for better or for worse, they have played key roles in how much the states' providers pay for medical malpractice premiums.
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authors.lastname: Hudson
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D005431:Florida; D006761:Hospitals; D007351:Insurance, Liability / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007615:Kansas; D008318:Malpractice / Q000191:economics*; D013219:State Government; D014481:United States